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Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought (originale 1970; edizione 1970)

di David Hackett Fischer (Autore)

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"If one laughs when David Hackett Fischer sits down to play, one will stay to cheer. His book must be read three times: the first in anger, the srcond in laughter, the third in respect....The wisdom is expressed with a certin ruthlessness. Scarcly a major historian escapes unscathed. Ten thousand members of the AmericanHistorical Association will rush to the index and breathe a little easier to find their names absent.… (altro)
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Titolo:Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought
Autori:David Hackett Fischer (Autore)
Info:Harper & Row, Publishers (1970), Edition: 1st, 338 pages
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Originally published in 1970.

5/25/2019 2ND READING ATTEMPT - With my second attempt, I made it to chapter 6 of this book for my 52 Bookmark Reading Challenge prompt #24/52 - "Book you never finished"...Still never finished!

It was highly recommended by Dr. Shane Bernard, historian on Avery Island, Louisiana. He claimed it was the most valuable book he's ever read. Great! This was exactly THE kind of book I had been looking for to help me determine a good history book (the truth) verses a bad one (propaganda), since we are having all these problems with the cancel culture and woke leftists trying to cancel out and change history. But, I need to search for another by a different author who writes in a language I can actually understand. On page 285, the author writes regarding a fallacy of many historians, a form of error is…”committed by scholars who never use a little word when a big one will do.” Well, this author could learn from his own writing. You need a dictionary handy just to decipher what it is he’s even talking about. But if you are a scholar, I'm sure you would actually rate this as top-notch. The 1-star is due to my own inadequacy for understanding, not for the quality of this book.

7/22/2018 - 1ST READING ATTEMPT - What the hell did I just read? You seriously need a doctorates degree to read and understand this book! I read through the first chapter a month ago and found it to be way over my head. So I put it down. I actually had it ready to go in the Goodwill box but just couldn't see it go just yet.

I did learn something substantial in that first chapter: That all historians write about history in their own biases and beliefs. Good or bad, right or wrong, their job is to present history to their readers, preferably backing up their writing with empirical proofs, and not their point of views. It is subjective and individual. Wow! I never even thought of it like that before. I've always just simply read and accepted every word in every history book as fact.

Because of this insight, I decided to go ahead slowly and painstakingly try to read through it again and try to gleen at least one important piece of information from each chapter in hopes of learning how to critically read history books, news reports or any other nonfiction piece of work, and to determine if what I'm reading can be a "trusted" source. I found that I'm not smart enough to determine a truth from a lie. But, I did at least learn a little bit about how historians write and the many fallacies that could make or break their reputation as great historians. I was only able to read through half of chapter 6 before totally giving it up for good because I literally couldn't understand one single word they were writing about. It's back in the Goodwill box for the next brilliant mind... ( )
  MissysBookshelf | Aug 27, 2023 |
Dear Lord, if you ever get assigned this book in class you are in for it. Fischer may have had a legitimate purpose when he set out, but allow me to sum up the finished version: "Every other historian sucks at what they do except me, and here's why, using only words that have more than 5 syllables." When I was forced to read this in grad school I looked at the size and the small chunks assigned each week and figured this will be easy. Oh boy was I wrong. There were instances where I had to re-read multiple times, not just sentences or paragraphs but entire chapters. And needed a dictionary at hand for words he used that I'd not encountered before or since. I actually enjoyed the author's book about Paul Revere. The obvious difference in genre being a given, this thing is still night and day different in how written. He does make some valid points but to say that he makes the reader labor to get there is an understatement of epic proportions. ( )
  reenactorman | Jul 10, 2020 |
Dense, very academic. Read it for coursework but worth the effort. ( )
  TimDel | Feb 2, 2017 |
A good correction to many mistakes by historians. But pretty academic. ( )
  jerry-book | Jan 26, 2016 |
David Hackett Fischer was in de jaren ’50 en ’60 van de twintigste eeuw een gerenommeerd Amerikaans historicus die zelf zijn sporen verdiende in de geschiedschrijving van de geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten. In 1970 publiceerde hij dit boekje waarin hij een bijna exhaustieve opsomming geeft van de verschillende soorten fouten die zijn collega’s van toen en van de eeuwen voor hem begaan hebben in hun historische werk. Zoals je je kan inbeelden veroorzaakte het werk een enorme golf van verontwaardiging in de historische gilde. Het heeft op zich ook iets enorm arrogant en pedant. Maar Fischer heeft er zich niks van aangetrokken: dit boekje is met zoveel autoriteit , flair, gevatheid en humor geschreven dat veel van de verontwaardiging wel kleinzielig moet overkomen. Toch zijn er behoorlijk wat opmerkingen te maken over Fischer’s aanpak. Ik noem er maar enkele. Fischer is een absolute empirist: geschiedschrijving (en bij uitbreiding alle sociale wetenschappen) kan alleen maar ernstig genomen worden als er zo empirisch mogelijk te werk wordt gegaan; en dat kan door de juiste vragen te stellen en volgens een strikte methodologie (een eigen historische logica) te werk te gaan. Fischer durft het nergens toe te geven, maar met dit uitgangspunt zet hij zichzelf in de pure positivistische traditie. Het boekje staat dan ook bol van de uitvallen tegen alle speculatieve geschiedschrijving à la Spengler en Toynbee (terecht), maar in één moeite veegt hij ook alle meta-geschiedenis en narratieve geschiedschrijving van tafel. Het zuivere empirisme mag dan wel een zeer gezonde basis zijn voor gelijk welke wetenschappelijke activiteit en evolutie, maar het buitensluiten van gelijk welke meer theoretische of artistieke invalshoek lijkt me wetenschaps-filosofisch gezien een zeer dubieuze en vooral niet zo vruchtbare manier van aanpakken. Dat neemt niet weg dat ik dit boek met heel veel plezier heb gelezen: het staat bol van de vooral praktische, methodische tips die inderdaad erg nuttig kunnen zijn bij het historische werk. Grote nadeel alleen is dat Fischer zijn bemerkingen vooral illustreert met Amerikaanse voorbeelden. ( )
  bookomaniac | Dec 27, 2015 |
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